Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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THE ECONOMISTANDTHE DAILY TELEGRAPHON THE WAR

The Economist, January 9, 1915.N.B.

Article:“The European Deadlock”....

“misfortunes” of the capitalists!!!

The Economist, December 19, 1914. “War Supplement”, p.10; Russia’s expenditure on the army and navy:

The Economist, December 19, 1914, p. 1059, article: “The War and Modern Business.”

...“Until the bloodiest storm in history burst at the end of July, it was hardly possible to tell where Krupp began or Creusot ended. War loans were inextricably mingled with peace loans, and deadweight debt with full capital issues. Whether to destroy or to construct, whether to build canals or forts, ocean liners or battleships, the whole world of business and finance seemed to have centred itself in London, Paris and Berlin. The financial houses were almost of necessity Anglo-German, Anglo-French and Anglo-American; directorships were interlaced, branches of agents existed in nearly all the cities of the Old World and of the New. Monster companies and corporations welcomed share holders of all nationalities, with very little regard for the diplomatic alliances.... It was a truism six months ago to say that nationality was no obstacle to business arrangements.... All this came to an end all of a sudden.... And yet the businessmen and the working classes are admittedly innocent. The guilt of war is everywhere traced to a few men—emperors, diplomatists, statesmen, militarists, or ‘philosophers’.... Let us hope for a swift disillusionment, a return of common sense, a revival of religion, and a reawakening of the human conscience”....

(α) The Yves Guyot source is obviously not impartial!

Ibidem (January 2, 1915), p. 12:

January 9, 1915, p. 57: the Rumanians in Russia areworse offthan in Austria....

Ibidem, p. 66: Russia’s war expenditure (1/2 year) =6,234million rubles (13millionrublesper day).

p. 72, a new book:P. Vinogradoff,The Russian Problem(1 shilling)?

The Daily Telegraph(No. 18631) Dec. 29, 1914.

The Independent Labour Party and the War.

“One of the resolutions on the final agenda for the annual conference of the Scottish Division of the Independent Labour Party to be held in Glasgow on Saturday, when Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., is to address the delegates, asks that all members of the Independent Labour Party assisting the government in the present recruiting campaign be expelled. Another asks for an expression of regret that the National Labour Party did not call a conference at the outbreak of the war to determine the policy of the party.”

[1]Ibidem, p.46—possibility of aprotestof the soldiers when close together in the trenches.—Lenin